In order to get python-certbot-dns-digitalocean in EPEL8 we need a python-digitalocean package. Please let me know if I should provide a pull request.
We still lack python3-demjson, python3-feedparser, and python3-setuptools_scm >= 3.4.1 in EPEL. However, python3-setuptools_scm is a RHEL package, so may not be able to be updated.
I don't see things as bleak: Most of the dependencies are just optional and the tests will skip them. I'll try to come up with some changesets in a local branch for review (may take a few days though). Afterwards you could create an EPEL 8 branch and I'll submit a merge request.
Sounds like a plan.
This was easier than expected: https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/fschwarz/rpms/python-jsonpickle/tree/epel8 From what I saw in the jsonpickle repo you would treat EPEL branches separately from the Fedora branches (separate commits) so I just started without a history and tried to make the spec file as clean as possible instead of trying to use a single spec file in Fedora+EPEL (with regular branch merges). Of course I could also change that approach to a unified spec file. Building in mock needs an extra step currently because zstd was retired in EPEL (provided by RHEL Base) but is not yet available in CentOS: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/MFZCRQCULJALRIJJFSSAETSDZ4RL6GCU/ You can work around the issue by extending /etc/mock/templates/epel-8.tpl with the EPEL 8.1 snapshot repo: [epel81-archive] name=EPEL 8.1 archive baseurl=https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.1/Everything/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 $ fedpkg --release=epel8 mockbuild --enablerepo=epel81-archive
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-12089a3a65 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-12089a3a65
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-12089a3a65 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-12089a3a65 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-12089a3a65 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.